This Morning’s Struggle

 I am a creature of habit. I am an early riser because I function best that way. I have the most energy in the morning and if I sleep in I feel I lost the best part of the day. It’s also the best time of day that is quiet. The day hasn’t started yet and I can sit with my coffee.  No plans running through my head until that coffee is ready.  I am blessed to sit on the deck and watch the lazy river flow by. So, as the sun rises, the day starts.

     Sounds peaceful doesn't it?  Then why oh why doesn’t it happen that way?  It is because I allow other things to make my morning for me.  The dog wakes me up in the morning and yes wants her walkee and foodee.  Then she has to play. Multiply that by two. A Shepherd and a Great Dane.  Plans start running through my head in a jumbled mess while mixing the food and, oh yes, no coffee.  While the coffee is brewing they have finished eating and off we go for walkee.  The coffee sits in the pot while I play tug with both dogs. When they finally settle down I get a cup and sit down only to have the shepherd lay her head on my lap and look at me with chocolate brown eyes and  the tip of her pink tongue showing asking “cuddle time?”   

       Something is missing and,just like everyone else, getting time with the Lord is a struggle.  The day was planned and I got through it but what would it be like if the Lord was included.  

      The wisdom here is to change the plan.  The dogs have needs, but my time is important. I got my coffee and after that cuddle it became my time. And just as coffee helps me to focus, so does time in prayer and the word.  The coffee didn’t stay in the pot and the bible did not stay on the shelf.  

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Prov. 3:5-6